Yesterday
Today
CEO of Neva Labs Mark Little
Further to the alleged data breach at Independent News and Media.
And Data Commissioner Helen Dixon stating she will appear at an INM-sponsored data protection conference in Dublin’s RDS next week…despite Ms Dixon investigating INM’s alleged data breach…
The Irish Times, is reporting that Mark Little – who was scheduled to be a speaker at the event – has pulled out.
Mr Little, now chief executive of digital media company Neva Labs, said that he was due to participate as unpaid panellist at the INM conference speaking about broader issues around privacy and how people can regain control of their personal data from large corporations.
“I am not going to do this on Monday,” he told The Irish Times. “As far as I am concerned there is a conflict of interest for me as a journalist.”
Data regulator to speak at INM event despite investigation (The Irish Times)
Yesterday: At The Data Summit
Mark displaying Maslow’s hierarchy of needs perhaps?
Doesn’t need the money, his morals can dictate his actions. The rest not so much.
His appearance was unpaid.
Exactly
What conflict? ….anyone?
INM are the sponsors.
It’s be like the Donald sponsporing an event about protecting yourself against sexual predators.
Which is fair enough, but why not use the platform to call these people out…right there in their own sponsored event. That would be uncomfortable for them, no?
I don’t know. Some people feel uncomfortable about nothing..
Really it’s just because he feels uncomfortable about the no money. Dixon is a Civil Servant. She will be making out like a bandit when she puts in for the expenses. Any CS out there whos ever put in for expenses knows how easy money that is and knows exactly what I’m talking about. Why would anyone getting zip, sit next to someone whos getting compensated handsomely?
He signed up knowing he was getting zip… he’s a millionaire from some website he sold. He doesn’t need the expenses.. He’s not going because of the sponsors.
Are you purposely acting stupid?
Fair enough… would it be OK if it was say the Irish Examiner?
Genuine question.
Mark says, “as a journalist..” he has a conflict. So does this mean, no media company that employs journalists should sponsor the event?
I’m not playing devils advocate… genuinely a bit slow today.
Full of cold and flu remedies, head like a fuzzy telly
I cant make sense of stupid sorry…:-)
That was mean..soz
You’re fine Anne, we’re all made of thicker skin than that, I’d hope :)
No media company? He’s not participating because of this particular sponsor.
No media company, that has just been exposed as suffering from one of the largest data security breaches in the country’s history, should be sponsoring a data security event, possibly? I’m not well read on it but it appears that it happened deliberately too.
Irish Times are taking money from Google etc for their digital initiatives. The use Facebook as a platform. They’re all at the zero credibility game FOMO.
Tech correspondents are the worst in terms of looking at the poo on their own doorstep – Irish Times and INM included.
Irish Examiner is borderline Irish Times. Same thing.
He sold Storyful to Murdoch, so he doesn’t come to table with clean hands hardly, does he. Wide open for criticism. Conflict-avoidance. W
hole conference should be called off or turned into a comedy improv.
Thank y’all
When did you sign up to do this we’ve known about this since last December https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/journalists-concerned-for-safety-of-sources-in-indo-probe-2z0fjf2ls
Wrecker writes in the indo? Hope he’s in the process of determining if any of his emails were viewed.
If he ever got any….
I doubt it. Who gives a poo about Sony’s new noise-cancelling headphones.
On the face of it there is no real COI to match the definition
unless the Sponsors have made their financial support conditional on the content
ie only favourable mention etc = influence
but any cribbing can be nullified by the fact that INM are publicly noted as the event sponsors, therefore attendees know well in advance who is endorsing the event, so there is no transparency or hidden bias issues
however
if Mark Little is preparing to sue INM
then
he might be in risk area
as for the Data Commissioner, I see nothing wrong with her attendance as her function is to present her mandate to the attendees, which is her job
unless she has had to have her speech pre-approved by the sponsors
or have them prepare it for her
or maybe she accepted gifts etc from them
then she fails the independence test
Don’t know much about him but he looks a right…
Independent spoofing about data security when they could not protect their own…..???
Mark Little, establishment insider if ever there was one…
I used to love his unintentional Max Headroom impressions when he was political correspondant for RTE in washington. Jim Carey made much better intentional use of that plagerism.
It’d be interesting to know if he was reading Broadsheet before he made the decision and how many of the establishment apart from PR Spin Doctor un-extrordinaire Derek Mooney(obviously) are actually paying attention to comments on here.
:-J